# addDockerComposeEnvironment

- Module: [Aspire.Hosting.Docker](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.docker.md)
- Version: `13.3.0`
- Kind: `method`
- Source: [GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/aspire)

Adds a Docker Compose publishing environment

## Definition

```typescript
interface IDistributedApplicationBuilder {
  // ... omitted for brevity
  addDockerComposeEnvironment(name: string): DockerComposeEnvironmentResource
}
```

## Parameters

- `name` (`string`)

## Returns

[DockerComposeEnvironmentResource](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.docker/dockercomposeenvironmentresource.md) `builder`

## Applies to

- [IDistributedApplicationBuilder](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.docker/idistributedapplicationbuilder.md)